My Dark Age started because I had no times because of school and other interests too .. I started playing On-line video games ( CS, Ultima Online & T4c, then Ragnarok Online then FF XI and finally World of warcraft... and some others too I didn't played a lot.), and it was a "time-eater" hobbie... when I left home, I wanted to recover my old Lego set, I was feeling nostalgic ^^ but my mother sold half of them, and offered the other half to my cousin , who sold them -_- , and I never bought new ones ... until I met some people of the french community "freelug" at Japan Expo 2008 @Paris. The castle diorama they did made me wants to build lego again, so my girlfriend offered me the 4995 creator set... and I came out of my dark age !
my dark age approximately started in 1996 and ended 2 month ago, in august 2008... 12 years without lego ! I have to catch up this lost time!